John Partridge spoke about the pressures of EastEnders after Danny Dyer was forced to temporarily quit the show

“But it is relentless and I should imagine if he has got any problems or anything like that, to try and deal with life outside of that when you’re there 12, 13, 14 hours a day sometimes, that can be difficult.

“I know for me to manage my mum’s illness and work at EastEnders it was difficult to maintain all of that, so those were my reasons for leaving the show.”

SOUL OF THE SQUARE

By DAN WOOTTON, Associate Editor

IF hapless EastEnders bosses lose Danny Dyer they might as well close the Queen Vic for good.

Finally, they have found an actor to fill the void left by the show’s biggest superstar, Babs Windsor.

In less than four years he has become the heart and soul of Albert Square – and viewers overwhelmingly adore him.

But it didn’t take a rocket scientist to work out the chain- smoking, hard-boozing love rat, who once boasted he would always take drugs, was going to cause some serious trouble along the way.

If they didn’t want to deal with that trouble then why on earth did they hire him?

Danny’s been the best thing to happen to the struggling soap in years.

It’s losing the ratings and creative battle to Corrie and Emmerdale.

They should butt out of his private life and let him come back as soon as possible.